Car-coupling



(No Model.)

' O. HEISE.

- UAR GOUPLING.

No. 532,323. Patented Jan. 8,1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

CHARLES HEISE, OF WINONA, MISSOURI.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 532,323, dated January8, 1895.

Application filed October 9, 1894.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES HEISE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Winona, in the county of Shannon and State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new and useful- Improvements in Car-Couplers; and I dodeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked :hereon,which form a part of this specificaion.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in carcouplers and es pecially to the class of hook and catch automaticcouplings, in which the uncoupling is effected by mechanism connected toa spring actuated pivoted catch hook, which is made to rock an S-shapedplate disposed transversely across the drawhead, one being provided foreach draWhea-d, and so arranged that one end of the S-shaped plate willrest under the rear end of one spring actuated hook, and the hook end ofthe other catch hook, when the drawheads are brought together andcoupled.

To these ends and to such others as the invention may pertain, the sameconsists further in the novel .construction, combination and adaptationof the parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and thenspecifically defined in the accompanying claim.

I clearly illustrate my invention in the annexed drawings, which withthe letters of reference marked thereon form a part of thisspecification, and in which drawings similar letters of referenceindicate like parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 isa perspective View of my coupler coupled. Fig. 2 is a cross section onthe line it}, w of Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the springactuated catch hooks, and Fig. t is an enlarged view of one of the S-shaped plates for uncoupling the hooks.

Reference now being bad to the details of the drawings by letter, A, A,designate the two drawheads secured in any well known way to the ends oftwo cars.

B, B, are longitudinal recesses and pivoted within which are the catchhooks O, O, which are kept in a substantially horizontal position bymeans of the springs D bearing against the bottom portion of the recess,and

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the under side of the rear portion of the catch hooks. Pivoted, so as torock transversely across the drawheads as at E, are the S-shaped plates,and are so disposed that when the drawheads are coupled, one end of tionat the side or at the top of the adjoining cars, where the uncouplingcan be safely accomplished without the necessity of the operator goingbetween the cars.

. The operation of the invention will be readily understood.

When two opposing draw heads come together, their spring hook catchesengage over the cross rods H and the coupling is securely made. When itis desired'to uncouplethe drawheads, by pulling on the chain G, the rearend of the coupling hook, to which the chain is secured, is drawn downstriking against one end of the S-shaped plate, thus causing the otherend of the said plate, in its rocking movement, to raise and contactwith the tip or free end of the other catch hook thus releasing thecatch from the rod H and eifecting the uncoupling. Each draw head isequipped similarly with a chain, so that from either car the uncouplingcan be made. After the pressure is removed from the springs, the plateresumes its substantially transverse horizontal position.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim to be new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is-- An improved hook and catch couplerhav- 5 ing in combination with the hooks O, pivoted in longitudinalrecesses of the draw heads A, rocking lever X pivoted in a recess and atright angles to the said catch hooks, the rod G secured to the rear endof a hook lever C, a spring D interposed between the said end and thebottom of recess B, which rear end when depressed, is designed to rockthe lever X, as and for the purpose set forth. In testimony whereofIaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES HEISE. Witnesses:

J NO. F. CHURCH, G. Y. JACOBS.

